Circle Play

We had the second day of the Circle Play class at "Welcome to Precious Times". In the first class the girls learnt the technique of curved piecing plus adding the dots and rings. They had gained the confidence to add more them one curve to each of the blocks by the end of the class.
The second class was all about the lay out and design.

  It was time to play on the design wall. All throw every one was working on the same block or technique all the quilt look vastly different. Every one has there own design and colour choice that comes out in the making of there quilts.

Same of the girls had solid boarders to add to there quilt and same had one small boarder to frame the center and a pieced boarder for the out side.

                    More dots, curves and rings were added as the quilt was being designed.

The quilt above and below are the same quilt. One photo was taken on the design wall and anther was hanging at the window. Each photo looks so different, the bottom photo is a little like a stain glass window. ( the seams in the curves all show up.)

I can't wait to see all the "Circle Play" quilts finished. Thank you Lisa and girls for a lovely creativity day. It was lots of fun.

Finished my Kaffe quilt, sorry a little stitching to go on the binding. Thank you Evol for quilting  my quilt.

                                         The back of the quilt, used up my left over blocks.

At the end of the day while looking around Lisa's shop I had the best find !!!!! I have been after this book for years and it has just fallen in to my lap. Thank you Lisa so much.
 Bye for now.
Time to get a cup of tea and check out my new book.

Blue Mountain Retreat

I have had the best 4 days at Blackheath- Blue Mountains with a group of lady's from Emerald. We all went to Anne Sommerlad Triple Treat. Anne had over 60 people from all over Australia arrive for the retreat.  Anne, Rachael Porter and Petal Davies were the teacher for the 3 days. We all had a wonderful time.
Arrived in Sydney with all our gear, the first night we went to see the "Lion King" Loved it, stunning show. The next day for same reason we decided to lug all our gear (ports and machines) on to the train and head out to Kim Bradley's shop. Boy-o-boy what a bloody trip !!!!! We finely made it and it was well worth the trip.( Did I also mention that it was raining.)
 Kim has the best fabric shop, she was so lovely to all the weary travers. We had a ball in Kim's shop. Then it was back on the train and up the mountains to Blackheath.

                                   Sally is stuck in the corner of the train with all our bags.

 

Along the path we walked to class each day you would see these cute red mushrooms, they are the brightest red and really big, just stunning but I think they would be deadly. No one was going to touch them to find out. Each morning you saw lots more, they would popped up over night.

 (I wonder were the fairy's are hiding.)

 

My first class was with Rachael. This class was English paper piecing. Lovely relaxed class because we sat and hand stitched all day. I got most of my block made, Finished it that night a home.

                                                Carol and Loraine happy sewing away.

My block all finished. Not sure what I am going to do with it now, Have to think about that.

 

 
Anne's No-pins, No-tack turned edge machine appliqued wall-hanging. Great class and a wonderful way to turn under the edge for applique. Only bad thing for the day was that my machine broke in the traveling. I was very luck that Anne had a machine that I could borrow. Thank you Anne

 The last day I was in Petal's free machine stitched and embellished class. Bev skipped this class so I had her machine to play with. Thanks Bev.  I only had half a day in Petal's class because my cousin Dice arrived and I went home with her.
Said good bye to all the girls, plus  Anne, Rachael and Petal. Thank you all for a wonderful few days. Anne has her dates up for the retreat in 2015. Hopefully we can all make it back next year.

I set off with Dice to have a few days with family before I had to go home. Had the best time. We went to "Strictly Ballroom" for my birthday. The show was really good, if you liked the movie you would love the show.
Now I am back home and it's time to get back in to sewing before we go again for Easter.